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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-34942 json

Wasmtime panics when transcoding misaligned utf-16 strings

published 2026-04-09 7 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also EUVD-2026-20990 , GHSA-jxhv-7h78-9775 , JLSEC-2026-1355 , RUSTSEC-2026-0092

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings into the Component Model's utf16 or latin1+utf16 encodings improperly verified the alignment of reallocated strings. This meant that unaligned pointers could be passed to the host for transcoding which would trigger a host panic. This panic is possible to trigger from malicious guests which transfer very specific strings across components with specific addresses. Host panics are considered a DoS vector in Wasmtime as the panic conditions are controlled by the guest in this situation. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io wasmtime 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, 43.0.1
  • julia Wasmtime_jll 45.0.1+0
  • bytecodealliance wasmtime 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, 44.0.1
  • rust-wasmtime Debian 14 36.0.7+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34942

  • zed openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.24.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12355-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-34942 updated cvss 5.6

wasmtime: Wasmtime: Denial of Service via improper string alignment verification

  • Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 redhat-user-workloads/api-management-tenant/rhcl-1-3-wasm-shim Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 virt-firmware-rs
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io wasmtime
<24.0.7
>=25.0.0, <36.0.7
>=37.0.0, <42.0.2
>=43.0.0, <43.0.1
>=0.0.0-0, <24.0.7
24.0.7
36.0.7
42.0.2
43.0.1
julia Wasmtime_jll
<45.0.1+0
45.0.1+0

Affected products

  • bytecodealliance wasmtime

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.